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Last Day to Triple Your Investment in ME/CFS Research | #TripleGivingTuesdayOMF

Last Day to Triple Your Investmentin ME/CFS Research Thanks to the generosity of our supporters worldwide, we have surpassed our original fundraising goal for Triple Giving Tuesday OMF — so our leadership donors have stepped up to match an additional $200,000 in donations by Tuesday, Dec 1, 5PM PST! Today only, all contributions up to $200,000 […]

Make 6x the Impact Through Facebook Matching Gift | #TripleGivingTuesdayOMF

Make 6x the Impact Through Facebook Matching Gift We have a unique opportunity to share with you: Donate to OMF’s Facebook Fundraiser on Tuesday, Dec. 1 (International Giving Tuesday), and have your gift matched by 6x! When you donate to our #TripleGivingTuesdayOMF Facebook Fundraiser tomorrow, Facebook will match up to $7 million in donations — for the […]

Transforming Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Complex Diseases | #TripleGivingTuesday

From the desk of Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD Chief Medical Officer, Open Medicine Foundation #TripleGivingTuesday Research News Transforming the Diagnosis and Treatment of ME/CFS, Post-Treatment Lyme Disease and Fibromyalgia During the final week of Triple Giving Tuesday, I’m delighted to share an update with you about a remarkable project that aims to drastically improve and […]

OMF Ambassador Jacqueline Ko Releases First Single to Benefit ME/CFS Research

#TripleGivingTuesday Ambassador Spotlight OMF Ambassador Jacqueline Ko Releases First Single to Benefit ME/CFS Research Multi-award-winning Opera Singer and Canadian Open Medicine Foundation (OMF) Ambassador Jacqueline Ko, long known for her critically acclaimed stage performances, has just released her first single!  Photo credit: Kathryn Nickford Photography (Instagram: @knickford.photography),Graphic design: Stephanie Ko (Instagram: @sinistral.scribe).  Download and listen now! […]

Profile of circulating microRNAs in myalgic encephalomyelitis and their relation to symptom severity, and disease pathophysiology by Alain Moreau, PhD, Montreal Collaboration

From the desk of Dr. Alain Moreau, PhDDirector of the Collaborative Research Center at the CHU Sainte-Justine/Université de Montréal #TripleGivingTuesday Research Update Montréal ME/CFS Research CenterPaper Published in Scientific Reports On behalf of Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA), I am pleased to share that an article authored by my research team at the OMF funded ME / CFS […]

Spouse Advocates for Wife with ME/CFS | #TripleGivingTuesday Community Spotlight

A Voice for the Voiceless A Spouse Becomes Advocate for Wife with ME/CFS Today, as part of our 2020 Triple Giving Tuesday Campaign, we share Beth and Susan’s powerful story of a family whose lives have been drastically changed by the devastating impact of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Susan’s story, as told by her […]

Avid Surfer Becomes ME/CFS Advocate | #TripleGivingTuesday Community Spotlight

#TripleGivingTuesday Community Spotlight Avid Surfer Becomes ME/CFS Advocate Robert had a full life — he was an avid surfer, talented musician, and young businessman on the verge of launching an exciting career. Now he’s mostly homebound. As part of Triple Giving Tuesday, Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA) has the honor of sharing stories of people like Robert, […]

Meet Artist & ME/CFS Advocate Christina Baltais | #TripleGivingTuesday

#TripleGivingTuesday Community Spotlight An Interview with Artist & ME/CFS Advocate, Christina Baltais As part of Triple Giving Tuesday, Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA) is honored to share our Community Spotlight on artist and ME/CFS advocate Christina Baltais. Christina’s profoundly compassionate and moving artwork uses diverse mediums, including painting, collage, photography, writing, and art videos. A […]

Promising Studies Underway at Montréal Research Center | #TripleGivingTuesday

From the desk of Dr. Alain Moreau, PhDDirector of the Collaborative Research Center at the CHU Sainte-Justine/Université de Montréal #TripleGivingTuesday Research Update Promising Research Underwayat Montréal Research Center I’m very pleased to share with you, a valued supporter of Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA), an update from my team at the OMF funded ME/CFS Collaborative Research […]

A Message from OMFCA Leadership

A Message from OMF Leadership Open Medicine Foundation Canada (OMFCA)’s Triple Giving Tuesday campaign is almost a week in! We want to take a moment to share a message from OMF leadership. Watch the video now: “ME/CFS takes an incredibly vital human and just puts them in a box that people don’t even know they are living […]

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Microvesicles and viral sequencing
Microvesicles are a type of extracellular vesicle that is released from the cell membrane. Vesicles are small, fluid-filled sacs or vacuoles within the body. Sequencing is a technique used to determine the exact sequence of bases (A, C, G, and T) in a DNA (or viral) molecule.
NMR Metabolomics
NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is an instrument/tool used to perform metabolic studies, metabolic profiling, and metabolomics in biofluids and tissues for more than 40 years using magnetic fields. There is a very close connection between metabolic measurements and NMR. This connection has flourished because of NMR’s many unique strengths for characterizing complex mixtures’ chemical composition.
Proteomics
The large-scale study of proteins, which are large, complex molecules that are required for structure, function, and regulation of the human body's tissues and organs.
Autoantibodies
Antibodies that react with self-molecules and that occur in healthy individuals and are referred to as natural antibodies or autoantibodies.
Extracellular DNA for viral reactivation and Mitochondrial DNA
exDNA (extracellular DNA), exDNA is often secreted actively and is used to perform several tasks, thereby offering an attractive target or tool for biotechnological, medical, environmental, and general microbiological applications. Viruses are intracellular parasites that rely to a significant extent on the host cell for replication. Viral reactivation occurs when an active replication of the viral genome results in a lytic (degradation of the cell) infection characterized by the release of new progeny (descendant) virus particles.
Immune cell profiling
The immune system has many important regulatory roles in disease development and progression. Given the emergence of effective immune therapies, reliable predictors of response are needed. Immune cell profiling determines response by evaluating immune cell populations from treated and untreated samples. For our purposes, we will evaluate the white blood cell response to the viral infection using a process called “Cytof.”
Leukocyte Genomics
A leukocyte is a colorless cell circulating in the blood and body fluids and is involved in counteracting foreign substances and disease. A genome is all genetic material of an organism. Genomics is a biology field focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. Therefore, leukocyte genomics is the study of all genetic material of leukocytes.
Metabolomics
Metabolomics is a way to study metabolism – that is, through measuring amounts of the metabolites (small molecules) produced by our bodies as we convert food into energy and other molecules that our cells need to survive. Metabolomics technology is ‘large-scale,’ meaning that several thousand metabolites can be measured from a single sample of e.g., blood or urine.
Micro RNA
Cells use Micro RNA to control whether a particular gene is making too much, too little or the normal amount of its protein at a particular time.